Document 6598348

MONITORING CHILDREN'S
RIGHTS
Edited by
EUGEEN VERHELLEN
University of Ghent, Children's Rights Centre, Belgium
MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS
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Monitoring children's rights I edited by Eugeen Verhellen.
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"Contributions made and discussed at the European Conference on
Monitoring Children's Rights, December 1994"--Preface.
Inc 1udes index.
ISBN 9041101616 <alk. paper>. --ISBN 9041101624 <pbk. : alk.
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1. Children <International law>--Congresses. 2. Convention on the
Rights of the Child <1989>--Congresses. 3. Children's rights-Congresses. 4. Children--Legal status, laws, etc.--Congresses.
5. Child welfare--Congresses.
I. Verhellen, Eugeen.
K639.A55 1994
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
List of Contributors
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PART ONE
Foreword I Samir Sanad Basta
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1. General
Monitoring Children's Rights I Eugeen Verhellen
Establishing Accountability: Some Current Challenges in Relation to
Human Rights Monitoring I Philip Alston
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2. The Content of Monitoring
Monitoring Childhood: Its Social, Economic and Political Features I
lens Qvortrup
33
Monitoring Children's Rights and Monitoring Childhood: Different
Tasks? I Ferran Casas
49
Children's Participation and Monitoring Children's Rights I Malfrid
Grude Flekk¢y
57
Monitoring: Back to Basic Questions I Nigel Cantwell
67
3. Formal and Procedural Aspects of Monitoring
Monitoring Human Rights: Formal and Procedural Aspects I
Johan Vande Lanotte and Geert Goedertier
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Appropriate Direction and Guidance in the Exercise by a Child of the
Rights to Freedom of Expression, Thought, Conscience and Religion I
Adam Lopatka
287
Children's Participation: How far Can Children be Involved? I
Brian Milne
293
Article 12- Issues in Developing Children's Participation Rights: The
Experience of Save the Children in the UK I Gill Barn and
Annie Franklin
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Monitoring Children's Rights: Cutting Through the Confusion and
Planning for Effective Action I James R. Himes
113
Monitoring Children's Rights: A View from Within I Marta Santos Pais 129
Recourse Procedures Against the Violation of Children's Rights in
European Countries I Pascale Boucaud
145
Towards a European Law on Children: The European Charter of
Rights of the Child I Juan Maria Bandres Molet
159
Children's Right to Participate in Decision Making: A Case Study of
Ravenswood Primary School Council Newcastle upon Tyne, England I
Bob Franklin
317
4. Self-executive Force
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child's Self-executing
Character I Andre Alen and Wouter Pas
165
Children's Parliament in Slovenia I Zoran Pavlovic
The Self-executing Character of the Children's Rights Convention in
France I Jean-Pierre Rosenczveig
187
Social Participation: Beyond the Effect of Sweetness, with Illustrations
347
from the Project Snater I Jan van Gils
The Direct Effect of the European Convention of Human Rights
and the Rights of Children I Maud Buquicchio-De Boer
199
Marriage: That's your Own Choice! Moroccan Youngsters and the
Choice of a Partner I Anke Van Keulen and Jamila Hamid
327
357
5. Conclusion
3. Childhood Policies and Monitoring Children's Rights
Synthesis of the Discussions at the European Conference on Monitoring
Children's Rights I Hans van Loon
211
Evaluating the Process of Monitoring Children's Rights I Angelo
Saporiti
367
Child Politics: Dimensions and Perspectives IGoran Therborn
377
PART TWO
1. The Opinion of Children about their Rights
4. International Monitoring Procedures
The Monitoring of Children's Rights in Relation to Youth Cultures I
Maria Bouverne - De Bie
225
The Invisibility of Children and Adolescents: The Need to
Monitor our Rhetoric and our Attitudes I Bruce Abramson
Children's Attitudes Toward Their Rights. An International
Perspective I Isabelle Cherney and Nancy Walker Perry
241
Perspectives of Canadian Youth on Children's Rights I Katharine Covell
and Brian Howe
251
2. Children's Participation
How to Develop a Participatory, Comprehensive and Coherent Youth
Policy? I Willy Fache
263
Children's Participation in Residential Care I Lennie Haarsma
281
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Possible Optional Protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child: Improving or Undermining the Convention and its
Monitoring? The Case of Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and
Sale of Children I Geert Cappelaere
The Prohibition of Child Labour as a Social Clause in Multilateral
Trade Agreements I Koen de Feyter
431
Impressions en Marge d'une Session du Comite des Droits de !'Enfant I
Leyla Khalfallah
445
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A Child Against the State: Tasks of the Children's Ombudsman I
Helena Molander
5. Regional and National Implementation of the Convention on
the Rights of the Child
575
Process of Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child in Poland I Elzbieta Czyz
453
Monitoring Children's Rights: A Specific Task for "Child & Family"? I
Lieven Vandenberghe and Ankie Vandekerckhove
587
The UN Convention -on the Rights of the Child in Lithuania I
Giedra Dagiliene
457
8. Children's Legal Rights and Legal Assistance
Children at Risk and Defence of Their Rights in Bulgaria (The CAR
Project) I Panayot Randev, Ilka Grigorova and Maria Nikolova
463
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Monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
in a Non-party State: The United States I Cynthia Price Cohen
475
Children's Rights in Slovenia I Marja Strojin
491
Regional Implementation of Children's Nutrition Rights in Central
America and Mexico I Marfa Eugenia Villarreal and George Kent
A/Access to Legal Advice for Minors I Josiane Bigot and Richard Sancho
(593--:7
Andrea
495
@he Role of NGOs in Monitoring and Implementing the Convention
The Role of the Children's Rights Shop in Monitoring Children's
Rights I Maud Droogleever Fortyun
597
The Death Penalty for Crimes Committed by Persons Under Eighteen
Years of Age I William A. Schabas
603
Role of National Courts in Protecting Children's Rights I R.N. Trivedi
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9. Education
The Role of the NGOs in Monitoring Children's Rights I Luisa Maria
Aguilar
503
The Children's Rights Project in the Primary School "De Vrijdagmarkt" in Bruges I John Decoene and Rudy De Cock
627
Can we Make Reality of Children's Rights? NGO Monitoring in
Sweden I Simone Ek
509
The European Federation of City Farms and Working with Children I
Marc De Staercke and Ludwich Rech
637
Kitty 007: The Name by Which Anne Franck Calls us to Hope
and a future I Lea Dherbecourt
641
Pre-surveillance of Children's Rights: The Project "IDEE" promoting
Children's Participation in Geneva, Switzerland I Marie-Franf{oise
Liicker-Babel, Philippe D. Jaffe and Helene Rey Wicky
517
Monitoring the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child: The Experience of Philippine NGOs I Nelia Sancho
Monitoring Children's Rights to Education: an Inter-agency Approach
in the South West of England I Mary John
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525
The Right to Information: Too Vague to Be True? I Marian Koren
NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child I Laura
Theytaz-Bergman
537
Convention on the Rights of the Child: Education for the 21st Century I
Alena Kroupova
681
Developing the Role of an Ombudsman I Marianne Borgen
541
Commission de Protection des Droits de la Jeunesse: Mecanisme
National de Surveillance des Droits I Celine Giroux
Les Droits des Enfants Appartenant aux Minorites N ationales
d' Apprendre la Langue Matemelle et le Droit d'Etre Instruits dans Cette
Langue - Entre la Lettre de la Loi et la Realite de la Societe
Roumaine I loan Oncea
691
555
7. National Monitoring Mechanisms: the Role of Ombudswork
The General Delegate for Children's Rights and Youth Assistance
Evaluation of an Innnovating Action in the French Community of
Belgium I Claude Lelievre
563
Le Processus d'Enseignement aux Droits de l'Homme apres 1989 I
Irina Moroianu Zlatescu et Virginia Maxim
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703
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"Broad Legal Assistance": Defence and Realization of Children's
Rights: A Legal Assistance Project for Street Children in Rio de Janeiro I
Frans W.P.M. Nederstigt
841
10. Residential Care
Implementation of Young People's Rights in Flemish Provisions for
Special Youth Welfare I Jan Bosmans
Rights of the Child and Their Protection in Polish Resocialization
Institutions I Teodor Bulenda and Andrzej Kremplewski
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713
727
Monitoring Children's Rights in a Socio-educational Establishment:
The Lyonnaise Society for Childhood and Adolescence I Annette Jacob 745
The Undugu Society Approach in Dealing with Children at Risk to
Abuse and Neglect I Lynette Ochola
853
Droits des J eunes Vivant et Travaillant dans les Interstices du Milieu
Urbain I Moulaye Tall
867
Approach of Homeless Young People I Jan van Susteren
871
Human Rights of the Child in Residential Homes for Mentally Retarded
Children in Albania I Arian Pano
757
14. Children in Armed Conflict
Enfants Deplaces et Places Aupres de Tierces Personnes (Vidomegon) I
Felicite Talon Ahouandogbo
761
Children Victims of War in the Republic of Croatia I Darija Remeta
883
Declaration of Amsterdam: A Summary I E.A. Peeters, P. Idenburg
and E. Willemse
887
891
11. Health care
The Rights of People with Disabilities I Pilar Arnaiz Sanchez
765
Protection of Children and their Health During Times of War I Jane
Green Schaller
The Child and Its Health: Consent and Medical Interventions I
Marc-G. Schweitzer and N. Puig-Verges
775
APPENDICES
Abortion: A Right to Life for Unborn Children? I Jeroen van
Nieuwenhoven
785
Social and Educational Assistance for Children and their Mild Mental
Retarded Parents I Dieter Windels
797
12. Exploitation of Children
The Invisible Little Big Workforce: Plight of the Female Working
Child in India I Deepak Kumar Be hera
803
Ethical Aberration in Using Children for Endorsing Consumer
Products: A Cross-cultural Study I J. Christopher Daniel
817
Exploitation and Violation of Children's Rights: An Action Carried
Out in Belgium Since January 1993- INFOKIOSK Service and Pink
Lines I Anne-Marie Poreye-Thys
823
Les Droits de l'Enfant dans le Sport I Lieve Stappers
829
13. Street Children
Inegalite des Droits de !'Enfant et Role de la Femme I Anne-Marie
Frederic
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UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
901
Council of Europe - Parliamentary Assembly
Recommendation 1121 (1990) on the Rights of Children
919
European Parliament
Resolution A3-0 172192 on a European Charter of Rights of the Child
923
NAME INDEX
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SUBffiCT INDEX
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